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Homage to Catalonia28 June 2008
“Love of the music should be the driving force of any producer, performer or DJ. Everything else stems from that core, that love. With that love, sampling can become a tribute; An expansion on ideas long forgotten, reconstruction, collage. Using the same understanding openly and respectfully can turn DJing into a spiritual participation. It can turn a few hours of selection into essential history; Necessary listening through movement.”
- Theo Parrish (some more wise words in this clip ) played a set to a few thousand pilled or coked or otherwise up’d pilgrims at Sonar, Barcelona at 5am last Friday night. Some disco, some soul, some 35 minutes of free jazz, some hombre telling me I’m in another dimension. After an hour of Buraka Som Sistema’s onslaught of heavy bassy beats and grimey world electro driving the crowd wild (I was not so enthused), the easy thing to do would have been to crank out the techno and house bangers he is so well versed in, but instead, we got a treat. Whether the rest of the masses saw it this way, for me, it was spiritual. As the hombre insisted ‘this is the smart thing to do after that other band, just real good music.’
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